Instagram's global head of safety Antigone Davis testified to the US Senate about child protection after a leak exposed how the platform could harm children's well-being. Previously, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri said the app's effects on teenagers' mental health were "quite small"
Cam Sinclair, founder of Australian growth marketing firm Ammo, says that his experience in politics inspired him to grow an “anti-agency” where startup founders could feel like they had someone on their team who understood their challenges and risks they were taking. The latest installment of our ongoing interview series with top growth marketers, Ammo, and Ammo, is about their collaboration process with startups.
Astro, Amazon's first home robot, burst onto the stage at the company's fall event and immediately stole the show, coming as a surprise, even though Astro's development has been long rumored. The company believes it can persuade us to part with our cash and earn a place in our hearts and homes.
SK Broadband is suing Netflix to pay for the increased network costs and bandwidth usage the streaming service has drawn in South Korea, citing Squid Game and D.P. as the cause. The company estimates the cost at 27.2 billion won (around $23 million) for 2020 alone.
The Biden administration plans to bring together 30 countries to discuss the threat of ransomware attacks to global economic and national security. The goal of the meeting is to accelerate cooperation in combatting cybercrime, improving law enforcement collaboration, stemming the illicit use of cryptocurrency, and engaging on these issues diplomatically.
Apple's remote work advocacy group sent an anonymous email to Tim Cook, asking him to return to in-person work three days a week with the option to work from home on Wednesdays and Fridays. The remote work struggle is emblematic of a deeper shift taking place inside the company.
The Honor 50 will be the only phone of the series to hit Europe. The phone has a 6.57” OLED display with 120Hz refresh rate, 108MP main camera, and 32MP selfie shooter. It runs Android 11 with Magic UI and comes with support for Google Services.
A team of musicians, music historians and computer experts have been working on Beethoven's 10th Symphony to make it come to fruition. The project is the result of a collaboration between the team and Playform AI to teach a machine how to create a new type of composition.
The latest evidence of an embrace of non-fungible tokens by restaurants comes in the form of new promotion launches by both Burger King and Dave & Buster’s. The Burger King NFT promotion is part of an effort to raise awareness around its Keep It Real campaign, a marketing initiative in which it is eliminating 120 artificial ingredients from its menu.
Clubhouse is introducing Clips, a tool people can use to share previews of public rooms, and will be rolling out Clips in beta to select creators today. The feature will be available to all public and open rooms unless the host has gone out of their way to disable the feature.
Google is trying to find better ways to find and sort out information in search for information. The company is working on partnerships with Facebook and ByteDance to bring content with more metadata into the results of Google searches, but this is not the answer to the problem.
Artificial intelligence improves the accuracy of short-term weather forecasts and particularly the prediction of storms and heavy rain, according to research by the UK Meteorological Office and DeepMind, a London-based AI company. The project focused on pinpointing the timing, location and intensity of precipitation at high resolution up to two hours ahead.